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Ultron gains the ability to use Iron Man's Unibeam for a powerful piercing blast that damages enemies and heals allies.
Heroes
- Ultron
- Iron Man
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Stark Protocol Guide
Stark Protocol is a new Team-Up introduced in Season 2.5 of Marvel Rivals. In this Team-Up, Iron Man stands as the anchor, which grants the new playable Strategist, Ultron, the ability to use Unibeam that pierces through characters, healing teammates and dealing damage to enemies.
- As the Team-Up Anchor, Iron Man gains a 5% boost in damage output.
- Ultron gains a new Nano Ray ability from his Team-Up with Iron Man.
As we can see in the trailer and gameplay showcase, Ultron only has 1 healing ability, which is the Imperative: Patch. With this skill, Ultron sends a drone to follow a target teammate and provides constant healing to the target and those around him.
While the healing is quite fast and constant, it still only follows one teammate, which sometimes doesn’t stick together with the other teammates, especially flying heroes. That's where this Team-Up ability comes into play.
With Stark Protocol, Ultron can enhance his basic primary attack, Encephalo-Ray, into Nano Ray beam that can heal those who are not affected by the Imperative: Patch skill.
However, this skill only lasts for 8 seconds and has a cooldown of 30 seconds, which is quite long. So, using this Team-Up ability requires perfect timing and not just spamming it anytime it is not on cooldown.
The best way to use it is when you are following your team's divers to support them. By doing this, you can simultaneously heal them while damaging the enemies that they are targeting. If Imperative: Patch is free to use, immediately send your healing drone toward the same diver so they have huge healing.
Another best scenario to use this is when you are defending your backlines against enemy divers and flankers. This way, you can heal your backliners while also damaging the flankers.
Best Against
This Team-Up is best against flankers and enemy backliners:
- Captain America and Venom are both Vanguard divers who will constantly harass your backliners. You can use this Team-Up to support your backliners while damaging the divers.
- Black Panther, Iron Fist, Magik, Psylocke, and Spider-Man are all Duelists who tend to target your backliners. Use your Nano Ray to heal teammates while damaging the flankers.
- Adam Warlock, Luna Snow, and Mantis, among other Strategists, are basically all defenseless against the Stark Protocol Team-Up. Just follow your team's diver and support them by healing and dealing damage.
Best Counters
These heroes are the best counters to Stark Protocol:
- Groot, Doctor Strange, and Emma Frost are all Vanguards who can summon shields, which work best to block Ultron's Nano Ray.
- Hawkeye, with his new Team-Up ability, Chilling Assault, can shoot frozen arrows to freeze enemies in place, which works really well against flying heroes like Ultron.
- Moon Knight can bounce his projectiles toward Ultron and his allies while he is trying to heal with Nano Ray, which requires close to mid-range.
- Namor, with his minions, can prevent Ultron from diving too deep.
- Invisible Woman can push away Ultron, use her Psionic Vortex to prevent him from flying, and turn him into an easy target for your teammates.
- Rocket Raccoon can easily run away from the Nano Ray and instead try to harass Ultron to stop him from healing his teammates.
